How to Use alienate in a Sentence

alienate

verb

• Why alienate them at the start?
  — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
• Why alienate them at the start?
  — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026
• This type of stuff just alienates me.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2026
• Business wise, why alienate half of their fan base?
  — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026
• That could alienate rivals, who could hold back their movies and artists.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 May 2026
• Pushing too hard, though, could alienate them.
  — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
• Any new path brings some members on board but alienates others.
  — Tim Hanrahan, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
• He is alienated, set apart from the rest of the world by his own making.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 26 June 2024
• This trend may alienate the very swing voters Democrats need to win.
  — Douglas E. Schoen, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2026
• But trying to ice out your friends’ daughter will just alienate them.
  — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
• So for an artist to come out and talk conscious, you’ll get alienated.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
• It's riddled with cheffy tricks but not in alienating way.
  — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
• In real life, all this does is alienate your team and drive away your best workers.
  — Expert Panel, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• The most likely outcome will simply be to alienate her from you.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• Someone who is in love with her daughter and alienated from her.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
• This is not a show afraid to alienate its audience or push past their comfort zone.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
• But no business wants to alienate a huge section of its customers.
  — Bill Carter For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 17 Sep. 2020
• The beer brand ended up alienating all parties in the process.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
• Biden’s die-hard base of supporters but alienate the rest of the country.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2020
• His love, the purest impulse of his soul, can only further alienate and cause harm.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2020
• Trump’s words and actions are alienating us from our close allies.
  — Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
• For now, the brand is resisting price hikes that might alienate its new customer base.
  — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
• But Mamdani can’t afford to alienate the wealthy.
  — Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2026
• Colbert wasn’t looking to alienate crowds.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 May 2026
• There’s something very alienating about it.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2025
• A lot of people think my big goal is to alienate people and to give them a big middle finger.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• The goal is to make the right person feel at home, without alienating anybody else.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
• He has been alienated from the kids completely.
  — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
• Why meddle in politics this way and alienate half of the country?
  — Jerry Bowyer, National Review, 5 May 2021
• To come down on one side would be to needlessly alienate the other, the thinking went.
  — Rebecca Keegan, NBC news, 24 Sep. 2025